{"id":248665,"date":"2016-12-23T16:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=96980"},"modified":"2016-12-23T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T21:27:18","slug":"a-trip-to-indira-point-down-memory-lane-37-years-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2016\/12\/23\/a-trip-to-indira-point-down-memory-lane-37-years-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to Indira Point: Down memory lane, 37 years back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contd from previous issue<br \/>\nIt was 7 AM sharp, Wednesday the 25th April 1979, the D-Day, when we started trekking. After walking for a while on the trunk road, we took a shortcut; this would save us five miles of walk, my guides assured. Sweating and panting, after half an hour\u2019s climb through a steep, narrow and rugged path, we again touched the blacktopped road. Another two hours walk brought us before a board put up by Project Yatrik which warned, \u201cSTOP. CROCS CROSSING. CROCS BURROW\u201d. It was the end of the 40.700-km-long North-South Trunk-road. We were at Galathea river basin.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/a-trip-to-indira-point-down-memory-lane-37-years-back-2\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/a-trip-to-indira-point-down-memory-lane-37-years-back-2\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contd from previous issue<br \/>\nIt was 7 AM sharp, Wednesday the 25th April 1979, the D-Day, when we started trekking. After walking for a while on the trunk road, we took a shortcut; this would save us five miles of walk, my guides assured. Sweating and panting, after half an hour&rsquo;s climb through a steep, narrow and rugged path, we again touched the blacktopped road. Another two hours walk brought us before a board put up by Project Yatrik which warned, &ldquo;STOP. CROCS CROSSING. CROCS BURROW&rdquo;. It was the end of the 40.700-km-long North-South Trunk-road. We were at Galathea river basin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[3951,4168,3945],"class_list":["post-248665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-general-articles","tag-s-balakrishnan","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248818,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248665\/revisions\/248818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}